Monday, July 20, 2015

Studio Day Monday

We are on day 8 and I am quite impressed with myself for not missing a single day !

Then I headed to the work table and continued work on this intuitive painting piece. Its a 20X20” canvas.

Its gone through quite a few transformations but I am liking the final orange version quite a lot !

The pics don’t quite get the vibrancy of the orange nor do they pick up the gold metallic touches that I added here and there.

It was a little grey today so maybe I will try and get more pics tomorrow but I love the little details…

I also did this page in my new journal.

It was a struggle !

I have been taking the Happy Painting class by Juliette Crane and it has made me play around with different materials and different ways of painting faces and I am kind of lost in the mish mash of styles right now.

I kept at it and pulled out the old dip pen and the inks and put my own messy style on page.

In the end I decided to just let it be what it is for now.

Its definitely not my favorite page and I was kind of disappointed that it was the first one in my new Moleskine journal.

But then again, I have to remember that journaling is not all about making pretty art.

Its about taking the time to do heart art.

So f*** off, Inner Critic.

The page stays as is ! I will not be taking your advice to rip it out of the book. ;)

While letting the paint dry on both of the other pieces,

I decided to spend part of the afternoon stitching.

Stitching and watching a movie.

I watched “Words and Pictures” with Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen.

I give the movie a 6.8 out of ten.

The movie played with the question of whether words or pictures are more important in and of course, there was a bumpy romance in the story as well. A pretty good chick flick.

Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

And my jeans are starting to look pretty badass, no ?

I feel so lucky to have had this day to play.

Tomorrow will be filled with errands and such, and then Wednesday, I will be packing.

Heading north to visit my Quebec peeps and get a bit of that Northern Summer beauty.

Really excited to hug some of my special people up there ! I miss them a lot !

7 comments:

Your arty process is always so creative and inspiring for you and for all of us have the privilege of seeing the results on your blog! What a treat you are! Thank you Kimmy for the gifts you bring through your art!! (and in all other ways too) Love you!!

Me too, My Queen (agreeing with Kate). I like that you give yourself permission to post the not-so-perfect pages as it gives us regular at-home artists (as opposed to royal artists and those artists who have been published in fun books) permission to do the same. I hope you have a wonderful trip, xoO

Wow! Love the orange and turquoise combo. The bomb. I really like this!!!!Glad you linked to facebook so I could check your post. I don't get around to the blogs much anymore. Which is a shame. This is awesome.

Hi Kim..been a long time since my last visit. No reason, just life I guess. My loss, I have been missing lots of good stuff. Wow, that orange painting really stands out, and I really like your mermaid journal page. Most of all I like that stitching you have done on your jeans. Would love to see the finished product! Now I want to do stitching on my jeans too...even though every time I touch a needle I get pricked. I'll be back. Take care.